I am reading between
the lines here that they knew/calculated the election summary as part of the
manual count process.
What they could have
done was to set up a new counter group, say “manual summary”, and make that a
combined absentee. The default
vote center automatically created for that counter group will have the one
combined report precinct. Manual
enter the totals into that combined precinct.
In practice that is a
little hairy election night, since you have to unset-for-election to create
the combined report precinct.
Assuming they had other totals that didn’t have to be hand counted and
manually entered, they would have to re-upload those totals after setting for
election again.
Ken
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From:
owner-support@dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-support@dieboldes.com] On Behalf Of Lesley Thompson
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 12:58
PM
To:
support@dieboldes.com
Subject: Manual Entry
situation
Looking for comments as to how
else to handle this situation. Les
Tippecanoe County, IN November 5,
2002
Situation:
County printed own early voting
absentee optical scan ballots.
1700 ballots would not read and had to be counted by hand for 82
precincts. County activists
gathered volunteer staff immediately and hand tallying occurred in a matter
of hours. To produce reports,
all 1700 ballots had to be entered into GEMS for 82 precincts through the
manual entry module. This
process took 11 hours and was not completed until
Wednesday.
Question:
As an election night interim step, are
there other alternatives for producing election night reports that do not
include manually entering full data?
Apparently the MicroVote software had an edit function that allowed
election official to manually edit the Election Summary. Was this similar to printing the
GEMS Election Summary report to file and editing? Other
alternatives?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lesley Koop Thompson
Customer
Service Project Manager
Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
415-235-6553
(office cell)
512-413-7618 (cell)
lesley@dieboldes.com